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In season 2, as Starbuck was torturing a Cylon agent, he says, “in the past, I was the one in your place and you were in mine. We are doomed to repeat the cycle over and over.“ Since the Cylon Boomer is giving birth, after mating with a Human, the baby would be part of both. This leads me to believe that what we call Humans are simply one species and the Cylon species is another that is equal to our ego and emotion but stronger in body.
This could also explain why the Humans speak of multiple gods and the Cylons speak of one god. Rebirth through eons of culture and destruction could conceivably result in a polytheistic culture (many cultures, many planets, many gods). The Cylons apparently believe in a monotheistic system, where god is in everything and "life is a continuous stream." The Cylon agent also says all life began on Caprica. I'm not surprised that Starbuck did not *get* the Cylon's metaphysical description of life because she's trained to react to things on a practical level. The military and philosophers do not often mix.
So I think the series is telling us Humanity and Cylons are basically one and the same, just on opposite ends of the life cycle. Did we create the Cylons or they create us?
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